New London "eminent domain" project stalled
Five months after the United States Supreme Court set off a national debate by ruling that the City of New London could seize their property through eminent domain to make way for new private development, no one has been forced to leave. Scott G. Bullock, a lawyer for the Institute for Justice who argued for the resistant property owners before the Supreme Court, said, "We might have lost the battle, but the overall war is really going in our favor."
"What developer is going to want to build on land that was received through probably the most universally despised Supreme Court decision in decades?" Mr. Bullock asked.
War debate wreaks havoc with Bush agenda After simmering on Congress's back burner for months, the Iraq war debate has eclipsed every other issue in the capital, slowing progress on some matters while stopping it on others.
WASHINGTON TIMES COMMENTARY Homeland security: Red alert
Things are going from bad to worse at the Bush Department of Homeland Security.
House okays sale of government land to developers and others
Mining Claim rewrite, on the surface, reads like the mundane nip and tuck of federal mining law its authors say it is. But lawyers who have parsed its language say the real beneficiaries could be real estate developers
Man sues Disney for gay 'Wife Swap'
A man who participated in the popular "Wife Swap" television show is suing producers for $10,225,000 after the "wife" they sent to his home was a gay man.
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Congressmen ask for second opinion on Iraq
Battalion commanders are asked for what the military calls "ground truth"—the unvarnished story of what's going on in Iraq.
